Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

We learn by teaching.