What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary