The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

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.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

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

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.