Francis Quarles

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

No cross no crown.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

My mind's my kingdom.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.