Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.