You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

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.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

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

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.