The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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!

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

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

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.