The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.