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.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

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.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

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.