If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.