I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!