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

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

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

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.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.