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

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

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

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

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.