Heav'n is not always got by running.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.