Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.