The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.

We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.