I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

Money makes a man laugh.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.