Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

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

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