Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.