Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.