"Geduld bringt rosen."

"Now, this... Mountain signified the Church of the living God; the Sun that shone thereon, the comfortable shining of …"

"By these things my Mind was now so turned that it lay like a Horse-leech at the Vein, still crying out, Give give, ye…"

"When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too."

"Now, therefore, they began to praise, to commend and to speak well of me, both to my face, and behind my back. Now, I…"

"[I]n one of the streets of [Bedford], I came where there were three or four poor Women sitting at a door in the Sun, …"

"See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it."

"[T]he Tempter came in with his delusion, That there was no way for me to know I had faith, but by trying to work some…"

"About this time... in a Dream or Vision, presented to me. I saw, as if they were set on The Sunny side of some high M…"

"And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see."