Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

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

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

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

Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.

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.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.