He is great enough that is his own master.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!