"I am not an enemy to pleasure; but I am an enemy to sin."

"I have often wondered that any man, who has tasted of the pleasures of retirement, can ever be prevailed upon to quit them."

"I was much surprised to find that the Bishop of London, in his late Pastoral Letter, has taken occasion to caution the Clergy of his diocese against 'enthusiasm,' and to warn them against 'the new doc…"

"I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God; just hovering a few moments over a great gulf, till, on a sudden, I drop …"

"The first thing that I would advise you to do, is, to get a clear and distinct notion of the state of the world."