We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.