As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

That is good which doth good.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.