The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.