Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.