Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.