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

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

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

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

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

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.