Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.