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.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.