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

"I have often thought that the difference between the Church of England and the Dissenters is not so great as some imagine."

"My hair is much whiter than it was a year ago; but my eyes are not much dimmer, nor my natural strength much abated."

"I would as soon believe that the sun would stand still, as that a Christian could fall from grace and be lost."

"I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air."