Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

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.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

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

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

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!