Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.