Philosophy Is Nothing But Discretion.

I Have Taken Much Pains To Know Everything That Is Esteemed Worth Knowing Amongst Men; But With All My Reading, Nothing Now Remains To Comfort Me At The Close Of This Life But This Passage Of St. Paul: "it Is A Faithful Saying, And Worthy Of All Acceptation, That Jesus Christ Came Into The World To Save Sinners." To This I Cleave, And Herein Do I Find Rest.

Few Men Make Themselves Masters Of The Things They Write Or Speak.

Men Say They Are Of The Same Religion, For Quietness' Sake; But If The Matter Were Well Examined, You Would Scarce Find Three Anywhere Of The Same Religion On All Points.

If The Prisoner Should Ask The Judge Whether He Would Be Content To Be Hanged, Were He In His Case, He Would Answer No. Then, Says The Prisoner, Do As You Would Be Done To.

Nothing Is Text But What Is Spoken Of In The Bible And Meant There For Person And Place; The Rest Is Application; Which A Discreet Man May Do Well; But It Is His Scripture, Not The Holy Ghost's. First, In Your Sermons Use Your Logic, And Then Your Rhetoric; Rhetoric Without Logic Is Like A Tree With Leaves And Blossoms, But No Root.