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

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.