To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.