I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

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