An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.