This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
Jeremy TaylorAvoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.
Jeremy TaylorLaughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
Jeremy TaylorIn self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
Jeremy Taylor