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.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

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.