There's no repentance in the grave.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

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

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

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.