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.

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

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

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.