"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 am a man of one book."

"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a servant, it should be one that needed no wages."

"I have often thought that the reason why so few are saved, is, because so few are willing to be saved."

"Though I am an old man, I am but a little child; for I am just beginning to learn the alphabet of salvation."