"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 …"

"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a food to eat, it should be bread and water."

"It is not possible for any one to be a true Christian believer, and not be a lover of mankind."

"The Methodists do not desire to be distinguished from other men, but by the Spirit which they breathe."

"I conceive slavery to be such a thing as is odious to the God of love."