I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

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

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.