I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.