If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure. --Funeral of John Upton, Esq