“Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”

“If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?”

“That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.”

“Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.”

“We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.”

“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clearAre the most choice companions we have here.”

“Friends, books and a cherfful heard and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here”