Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

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

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

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!

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

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

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.