For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.