The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

An honest man is always a child.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'