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.

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

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

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.