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

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

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.

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.