Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.