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.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

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

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

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.