God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.