There is no little enemy.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

To bear other people's afflictions, every one has courage and enough to spare.

All would live long, but none would be old.

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He that's content hath enough.

But it is the will of God and nature, that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life ... A man is not completely born until he be dead.

Life is rather a state of embryo,-a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death.