He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
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.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.