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

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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