Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

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

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

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

He is great enough that is his own master.

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.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.