Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

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.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.