Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.