Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.