Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.