Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John SeldenPride 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.
John Selden