These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

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.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

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

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.