To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

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

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.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.