#matthew_henry

...[T]hose that advise men to sin certainly advise them to their hurt; and that government which is founded in sin is founded in the sand.

Those are commonly most ambitious of preferment that are least fit for it; the best qualified are the most modest....

All the wealth and pleasure in the world will not make one meal’s meat for a soul.

Nothing is more proper, nor more powerful, to engage us to every duty, especially to all acts of mercy and kindness, than to remember the Lord our God.

If we do not our utmost to prevent mischief, we make ourselves accessory to it.

"Those servants are ill taught who obey their masters in contradiction to God, and those are wicked masters who have taught them to do so."

The case of those is very miserable whose friends, instead of admonishing and reproving them, flatter them and forward them in their sinful ways....

"Let him that readeth understand what the best of men are when God leaves them to themselves."