Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.