“I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I …” — David Brainerd

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.