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.

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.