If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Afflictions clarify the soul.

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

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.