Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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.