If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

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.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

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

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

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