I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

It is never too late to be wise.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.