We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.