It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

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

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

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