Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

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.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.