The better day, the worse deed.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
To their own second thoughts.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Our creature comforts.
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
They that die by famine die by inches.
To fish in troubled waters.
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
None so blind as those that will not see.
Not lost, but gone before.
Those that are above business.
Better late than never.
Saying and doing are two things.
Judas had given them the slip.
After a storm comes a calm.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
Cæsar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]--may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.