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.

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

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

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

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

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

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.