My hope and treasure lies above

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

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.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.