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

Money makes a man laugh.

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.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

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

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

No man is the wiser for his learning