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

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

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.