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

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

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.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

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