We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

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

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.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.