The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.