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.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

[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.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

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.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Prayer is where the action is.