Little sins are pioneers of hell.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.