If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.