The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.