Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.