Thomas Fuller

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.

There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.

Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of infant churches.

Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.