That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

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

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

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

Pity enlarges the heart.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.