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.

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

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.