The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

For great is truth, and shall prevail.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.