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

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

I look upon all the world as my parish.