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

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?.

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..

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

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him..

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

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish..

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well..

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed..

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation..

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle..

Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life….

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

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

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves..

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements b….

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 ….

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

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….

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse..

The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendo….