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.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

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.

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.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

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

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