"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at …"

"Avoid all refined speculation; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass t…"

"Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live."

"It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, stron…"

"Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with th…"

"It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and medit…"

"Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the…"

"Man holds an inward talk with his self alone, which it behooves him to regulate well."

"For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?"

"He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed, But on his knees at meditation; Not dallying with a brace of courtesans, But me…"