Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

God has made no one absolute.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.