The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

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.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

Fill each day with light and heart.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.