All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Reason also is choice.

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.