The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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.

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

Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

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

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

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.