Sermons on Various Subjects of Christian Doctrine and Duty (Providence: John Miller and John Hutchens, 1823), Sermon XVI, "The Happiness of Self-Denial" (Luke 18:28–30), p. 261

We cannot conceive of any act of true self-denial, which will not be productive of the present, as well as future good of the person who performs it. It is the dictate of every man's reason, that his giving up his own pe…