Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

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.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

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

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.