Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.