In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. 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.

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

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Money makes a man laugh.

Old friends are best.