Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

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.

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

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.