Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

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

Great is the advantage of patience.

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.

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.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.