For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

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

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

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.