The Parish Makes The Constable, And When

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.

When Men Comfort Themselves With Philosophy, 'tis Not Because They Have Got Two Or Three Sentences, But Because They Have Digested Those Sentences, And Made Them Their Own: Philosophy Is Nothing But Discretion.

Pleasure Is Nothing Else But The Intermission Of Pain, The Enjoying Of Something I Am In Great Trouble For Till I Have It.

A Glorious Church Is Like A Magnificent Feast; There Is All The Variety That May Be, But Every One Chooses Out A Dish Or Two That He Likes, And Lets The Rest Alone: How Glorious Soever The Church Is, Every One Chooses Out Of It His Own Religion, By Which He Governs Himself, And Lets The Rest Alone.

Casting Out Devils Is Mere Juggling; They Never Cast Out Any But What They First Cast In.