"All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that are to be said about Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done; but that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more."

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder."

"Now we must remember, that if all the manifestly good men were on one side, and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of any one, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men ,good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of the Antichrist, and so sadly to crucify afresh the Lord whom they … more than profess to love. Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that their deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side."

"See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and near Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks, Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry Amid thy cloud-built streets."

"Faith is a letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the divine command, not knowing what we shall take."

"There is seldom a line of glory written upon the earth's face, but a line of suffering runs parallel with it; and they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and stoop not to decipher the spotted and worn inscription of the other, get the.least half of the lesson earth has to give."

"The one chosen shadow of God upon earth."

"Many indeed there are, who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation."

"O Paradise! O Paradise! The world is growing old; Who would not be at rest and free Where love is never cold?"

"O Paradise! O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not seek the happy land, Where they that love are blest?"

"Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swelling O’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore; How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more!"

"Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable 'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear."

"Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong."

"The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan."

"If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord."

"For right is right, since God is God; And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin."

"Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light."

"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?""

"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]."

"Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man."

"Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel."

"Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity."

"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

"Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons."

"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."

"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.""

"Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword."

"We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars."

"They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud."

"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied."

"Be not solitary, be not idle."

"What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?"

"They have cheveril consciences that will stretch."

"Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves."

"A good conscience is a continual feast."

"Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness."

"One religion is as true as another."

"When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done."

"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."

"Out of too much learning become mad."

"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

"For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness."

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

"Make a virtue of necessity."

"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

"The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill."

"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."