The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

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.

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

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

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.