Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.