Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Business neglected is business lost.