Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

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

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.