The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.