Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.