What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

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

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

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.

Perfection is the child of time.