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

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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.

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