The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

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.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.