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.

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

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

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

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

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

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings