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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

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

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?

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; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

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

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.