It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

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

I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.