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.

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

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

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

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

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

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.