A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.