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

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Do not let fancy outrun your means.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.