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

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.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Try to be of some use to others.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

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