At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

Death, thou shalt die.

Great sorrows cannot speak.

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.