"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a place of abode, it should be in a country where there were no rich people."

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

"I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion withou…"

"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 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."