It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.