Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

God's favour is happiness.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

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.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.