When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

In one word, not to dwell longer on this, give heed, and you will at once perceive that ignorance of Providence is the greatest of all miseries, and the knowledge of it the highest happiness.

All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.