Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.