Pleasures of the World

I cannot but look upon all the glory and dignity of this world, lands and lordships, crowns and kingdoms, even as on some brain-sick, beggarly fellow, that borrows fine clothes, and plays, the part of a king or lord for an hour on a stage, and then comes down, and the sport is ended, and they are beggars again. —Richard Baxter Pleasures come like oxen slow and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur. —Joseph Hall Temporal good things are not the Christian's freight, but his ballast, and therefore are to be desired to poise, not load the vessel. —William Gurnall Seek not great things for yourselves in this world, for if your garments be too long, they will make you stumble; and one staff helps a man in his journey, when many in his hands at once hinders him. —William Bridge