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.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

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.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.