The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.