Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.