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

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

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

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.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.