"I have not much time to spare for trifles."

"I was much disgusted at the first sight of the people. They were as rude and ill-favoured as their houses."

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the k…"

"I look upon all the world as my parish."

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