Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.