Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.