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.

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

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

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.

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

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.