By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.