The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

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

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

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.