A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

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.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.