Conduct is more convincing than language.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

I think this would be a good time for a beer.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

How can you contrive to write so even?

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

The era of big government is over.