It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.
The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.
The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
