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

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

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

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.