[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.