In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

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

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

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Integrity gains strength by use.

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.