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.

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

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

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

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

That is good which doth good.