How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

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.