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.

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

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

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

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

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.

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