Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.