Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

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.

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

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

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

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