There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
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.