To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Humility is the light of the understanding.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition. Men that fear God are said to hate covetousness, Exod. xviii. 21. Besides the covetous man is called an idolater and is said to have no part in the kingdom of Christ and of God, Col. iii. 5. And again; 'The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth,' Psa. x. 3.