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.

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

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

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

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.