It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.