Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.