“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.”

“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”

“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”

“God’s work must be done, in every thing, according to his own will. His institutions neither need nor admit men’s inventions to make them either more beautiful or more likely to answer the intention of them. 'Add thou not unto his words.' God is pleased with willing worship, but not with will-worship.”

“When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.”

“The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.”