Health is not valued till sickness comes.

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.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Light (God’s eldest daughter) is a principal beauty in building.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his...

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

He that travels much knows much.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up...

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.