Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

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

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

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.