The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

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

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

Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.