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

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

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.