Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.