The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.