Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

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

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

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.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

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.