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

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.

Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.