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A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does. - [Dogmatism] Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. - [Argument] Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. - [Argument] Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. - [Controversy] 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 time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. - [Inquisitiveness] Earth, thou great footstool of our God Who reigns on high; thou fruitful source Of all our raiment, life and food, Our house, our parent, and our nurse. - [Earth] Even bees, the little alms-men of spring flowers, Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. - [Bees] Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. - [Fancy] He that has treasures of his own May leave the cottage or the throne, May quit the globe, and dwell alone Within his spacious mind. - [Mind] I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them. - [God] If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. - [Indexes] In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. - [Character] In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. - [Bible] In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor. - [Justice] It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water. - [Logic] Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. - [Good Humor] Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. - [Logic] O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home! - [God] One, glance of Thine creates a day. - [Day] Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. - [Oratory] 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. - [Conscience] Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world. - [Reason] Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. - [Proverbs] Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. - [Proverbs] The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding. - [Superstition] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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