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.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

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

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.