Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

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.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.