Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

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