The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

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

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

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.