You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

The desire to write grows with writing.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Fools are without number.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.