To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).