"I have been writing a sermon on the use of money. Oh, what a flat, unprofitable subject it is!"

"I am a debtor to all the world, to do all the good I can, in every place, to every soul."

"It is a melancholy proof of the blindness and ignorance of mankind, that they are not aware of the evil of 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 no doubt that God will be merciful to me, a poor miserable sinner."