Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

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.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

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