The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

There's no repentance in the grave.

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.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.