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.

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.

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

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

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

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.