Who lies for you will lie against you.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.