There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.