Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

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

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.