That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.