Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

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

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

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.

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

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.