He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.