Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.