Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

A gallant man is above ill words.

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 look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

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.