God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
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.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.