Great is the advantage of patience.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

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

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.