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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

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.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Pain is an outcry of sin.