We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.

And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions.

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

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.

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

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.