They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

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

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

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