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

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

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