The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

- Thomas Adams

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

- Thomas Adams

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent bright…

- Thomas Adams

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

- Thomas Adams

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

- Thomas Adams

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make …

- Thomas Adams

He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

- Thomas Adams

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

- Thomas Adams

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

- Thomas Adams