My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

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

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

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