This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

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 our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

He that is rich is wise.

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.