“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!”

“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”

“Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.”

“I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.”

“Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy and completely pollutes your skin. You make allowances for all this. In fact, this only increases your concern and love for your body; you wait on it and wash it, and you endure and help in every way you can. Why not do the same with the spouse whom God has given you, who is an even greater treasure and whom you have even more reason to love?”

“This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.”

“Each one should become as it were a Christ to the other that we may be Christs to one another and Christ may be the same in all, that is, that we may be truly Christians.”