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

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

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

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.