Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

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

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

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.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.