Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and...

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Now the testament is, that his blood was shed for our sins; but it is impossible that the cup or his blood should be that promise.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Wherefore if Christ did put his bodily presence in the sacrament, and would we should believe it; it is done only to bring us to this faith.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

In fair Weather prepare for foul.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Poor men’s reasons are not heard.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

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

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Care and diligence bring luck.

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It’s retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

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.