Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Integrity gains strength by use.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.