Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.