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

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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

Try to be of some use to others.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.