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

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.