The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

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

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

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.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.