Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.