Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

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

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

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.

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