The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

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.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

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

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.