Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.