“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.