Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.