God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

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