Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

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

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

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.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.