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.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.