God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.