Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

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.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.