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.

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.

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

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

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