Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God