Ambitious men are like little children which take great paynes in runninge vp and downe to catch butterflyes, which are nothing but painted winges, and either perishe in takinge or fly away from them.
Covetous man like a child, which cryes more for the losse of a trifle then his inheritance; he laments more for losse of wealth then soule.
A covetous man proud of his riches is like a theife that is proud of his halter.
Mr. Phillips.
The proverbe is that building is a theife, because it makes us lay out more money then wee thought on; but pride is a theife and a whore too, for it robbes the maister of his wealth, and the mistress of her honesty.
fo. 8.
The drunkard makes his belly noe better then a bucking tubb, a vessell to poure into, and put out at.
Bona opera habent mercedem, non ratione facti, sed ratione pacti.
Non est refugium a Deo irato, nisi ad Deum placatum.
Synn is Adams legacy bequeathed to all his posteritie: nothing more common then to committ synn, and being committed to conceale it.