By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.

You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.