Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.