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

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

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

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

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