We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

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

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

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.