No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.