An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).