You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!