Man is a tool-making animal

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

In success be moderate.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

That which hurts, also instructs.