Isaac Watts

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

The tulip and the butterfly_x000D_ _x000D_ Appear in gayer coats than I:_x000D_ _x000D_ Let me be dressed fine as I will,_x000D_ _x000D_ Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.