The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.