When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

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

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.

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.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.