We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.