Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.