Keep Your Faith In God, But Keep

The State, In Choosing Men To Serve It, Takes No Notice Of Their Opinions. If They Be Willing Faithfully To Serve It, That Satisfies.

No One Rises So High As He Who Knows Not Whither He Is Going. Not Only Strike While The Iron Is Hot, But Make It Hot By Striking. Do Not Trust The Cheering, For Those Persons Would Shout As Much If You Or I Were Going To Be Hanged.

It's A Blessed Thing To Die Daily. For What Is There In This World To Be Accounted Of! The Best Men According To The Flesh, And Things, Are Lighter Than Vanity. I Find This Only Good, To Love The Lord And His Poor Despised People, To Do For Them And To Be Ready To Suffer With Them....and He That Is Found Worthy Of This Hath Obtained Great Favour From The Lord; And He That Is Established In This Shall ( Being Conformed To Christ And The Rest Of The Body) Participate In The Glory Of A Resurrection Which Will Answer All.

Mr. Lely, I Desire You Would Use All Your Skill To Paint My Picture Truly Like Me, And Not Flatter Me At All; But Remark All These Roughnesses, Pimples, Warts, And Everything As You See Me, Otherwise I Will Never Pay A Farthing For It.

Men Have Been Led In Dark Paths, Through The Providence And Dispensation Of God. Why, Surely It Is Not To Be Objected To A Man, For Who Can Love To Walk In The Dark? But Providence Doth Often So Dispose.