I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.