To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

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.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.