Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.

We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.