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.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

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

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.