That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.