It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

They that die by famine die by inches.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.