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.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

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

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.