Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.

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.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.