It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

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

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.

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

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

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

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