...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

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.

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

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

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.