The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.