Health is not valued till sickness comes.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet’s mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Abused patience turns to fury.

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God’s good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part...

‘Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

The more wit the less courage.

Better one’s House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

When I left school, I became a friend for the first time of people who were not Christians, and who tried to convince me that my views were crazy.

If you would not step into the harlot’s house, do not go by the harlot’s door.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ’s body was given, and his blood shed for us.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

Pride will spit in pride’s face.

‘Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.