He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.