Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

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

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.