There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.