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

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

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