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.

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

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

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

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

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.

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