Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

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

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.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

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

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

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.