If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Custom determines what is agreeable.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.