Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

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

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

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.