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

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

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

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.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Marriage is a desperate thing.