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.

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

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

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.

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

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.