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

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.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

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