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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Ralph Venning

All the beauty of the world, ’tis but skin deep.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late.

Success at first doth many times undo men at last.

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them.