If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

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.

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

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.