Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.