BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Believe things, rather than man.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.