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.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.