An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.