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

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring.

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

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.