It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

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.

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

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