We Cannot Go To Heaven In Featherbeds.

There Are Dreadful Punishments Enacted Against Thieves, But It Were Much Better To Make Such Good Provisions By Which Every Man Might Be Put In A Method How To Live, And So Be Preserved From The Fatal Necessity Of Stealing And Of Dying For It.

The Way To Heaven Out Of All Places Is Of Length And Distance.

It Is Possible To Live For The Next Life And Still Be Merry In This.

It Is A Wise Mans Part, Rather To Avoid Sickness, Than To Wish For Medicines.

The Folly Of Men Has Enhanced The Value Of Gold And Silver Because Of Their Scarcity; Whereas, On The Contrary, It Is Their Opinion That Nature, As An Indulgent Parent, Has Freely Given Us All The Best Things In Great Abundance, Such As Water And Earth, But Has Laid Up And Hid From Us The Things That Are Vain And Useless.