The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

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

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.