The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.