As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.