'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?