Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
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.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.