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

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

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

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

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.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.