"It is a poor religion that consists in negatives only."

"I will not speak to you as a Methodist, but as a man of common sense."

"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 desire to have but one thing in view, to please God."

"I have often wondered that any man, who has tasted of the pleasures of retirement, can ever be prevailed upon to quit them."