We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.