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.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

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

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

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.