Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

That is good which doth good.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.