Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

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.

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

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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

That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.