He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

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

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.

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.

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.