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

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

In all 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, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men