Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

An excellent angler, and now with God.

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

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.