Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.