True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.