Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

They that die by famine die by inches.

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

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).