I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.