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.

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

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

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

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.