Men can make an idol of the Bible.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.