A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

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

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.