Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.