"I have been reading a book of travels. I do not know when I have been so much amused. It is a pity that so few of our travellers write like rational creatures."

"Reading the Scripture, I find there no other way to heaven than the way of holiness."

"I am not afraid of being accounted an enthusiast. I am afraid of nothing but sin."

"I have often thought that the greatest proof of the goodness of God to man, is that he has given him a wife."

"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion for life, it should be one who had as little money as myself."