In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

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.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.