Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.