The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

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