No man is the wiser for his learning

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

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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

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

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

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.