It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of….

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices..

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do..

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument..

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper….

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last..

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative..

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your tim….

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love..

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long..

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..

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

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes..

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

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen..

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature..

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet..

Satirists do expose their own ill nature..

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance..

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..