Wee spend our mid-day sweat, or mid-night oyle; / Wee tyre the night in thought; the day in toyle.

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

He that has no cross will have no crown.

He that sets not his heart on what he possesses, forsaketh all things, though he keep his possessions.

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

Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is believed of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason.

No cross no crown.

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world’s a trap.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend’ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos’d of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!