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.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

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

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

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.

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