Nothing Fools People As Much As Extreme

Neutrality In Things Good Or Evil Is Both Odious And Prejudicial; But In Matters Of An Indifferent Nature Is Safe And Commendable. Herein Taking Of Parts Maketh Sides, And Breaketh Unity. In An Unjust Cause Of Separation, He That Favoreth Both Parts May Perhaps Have Least Love Of Either Side, But Hath Most Charity In Himself.

I Have Seldom Seen Much Ostentation And Much Learning Met Together.

Nothing Doth So Fool A Man As Extreme Passion. This Doth Make Them Fools Which Otherwise Are Not, And Show Them To Be Fools Which Are So.

Garments That Have Once One Rent In Them Are Subject To Be Torn On Every Nail, And Glasses That Are Once Cracked Are Soon Broken; Such Is Man's Good Name Once Tainted With Just Reproach.

Infidelity And Faith Look Both Through The Perspective Glass, But At Contrary Ends. Infidelity Looks Through The Wrong End Of The Glass; And, Therefore, Sees Those Objects Near Which Are Afar Off, And Makes Great Things Little,-diminishing The Greatest Spiritual Blessings, And Removing Far From Us Threatened Evils. Faith Looks At The Right End, And Brings The Blessings That Are Far Off In Time Close To Our Eye, And Multiplies God's Mercies, Which, In A Distance, Lost Their Greatness.