In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.