Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.