A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

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.

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

No man is the wiser for his learning

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.