"Lest we should be too much elated with our successes, or too much dejected by our misfortunes."

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."

"Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."

"For God, when he gave the command to multiply, did not mean that it should be a perpetual or a forced generation, but a free and voluntary one."

"Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose…"