If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

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

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

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