When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.