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.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

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