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

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

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.

He is great enough that is his own master.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

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

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.