Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

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

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

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

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

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.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.