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

Try to be of some use to others.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

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

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.