This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.