If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

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

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

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.

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

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.

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