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

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

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.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

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.