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

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

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.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.