Integrity gains strength by use.

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

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

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.

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

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

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.