A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.