Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

The better day, the worse deed.

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.

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

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

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.