"I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit luci…"

"There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it …"

"And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick."

"Would I describe a preacher, * * * * I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language p…"

"The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what …"

"He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should bewa…"

"Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life."

"It is prohibited to preach out of manuscript. Sermons are to be delivered without the help of any writing before the …"

"But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all."

"Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy!"