Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.