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.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

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.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.