We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

No man is the wiser for his learning

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

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

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.