Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.