Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

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

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.