God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

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

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

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