I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.