We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.