Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.