C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
John Wesley
Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. “Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”
If we take away this foundation, that man is by nature foolish and sinful, fallen short of the glorious image of God, the Christian system falls at once; nor will it deserve as honorable an appellation as that of a cunningly devised fable.
Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.
That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called the slave-trade.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.