He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

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

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.