I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.