Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

Of two Evils we take the less.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.