They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.