He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.