The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

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

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

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.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

A gallant man is above ill words.