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.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

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

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

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

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.