And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.