Those that are above business

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.

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to …

Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.