He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Home joys are blessed of heaven.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.