Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.

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

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.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of the affections and choice of the heart. So God was served in the letter, they did not much inquire into His purpose; and therefore they were curious to wash their hands, but cared not to purify their hearts.