Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

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

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

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

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

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