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

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

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

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