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

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

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

I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

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

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.