Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.

Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.

For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.