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

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

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.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.