Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

After a storm comes a calm.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

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

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.