Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.