Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

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

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

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.