There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

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.

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

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

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