If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.