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

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

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.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

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