Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to 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.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

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