The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.