We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.