Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.