Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

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

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

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

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.