God warns before he wounds.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.
The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.