Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. |
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. |
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. |
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. |
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. |
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. |
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. |
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. |
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. |
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. |
Love is friendship set on fire. |
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. |
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. |
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. |
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. |
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it. |
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. |
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. |
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. |
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. |