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

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

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

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.