Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.