“A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.”

“Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.”

“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”

“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”

“The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.”

“Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.”