Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

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

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

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

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.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

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