The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.