“Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.”

“You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.”

“God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly”

“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”

“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”

“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”