Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

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

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.