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.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

A gallant man is above ill words.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.