My hope and treasure lies above

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

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.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

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.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.