Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.