Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.