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.

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

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

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.