Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

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

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.