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.

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

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.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

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

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.