The Smallness Of Our Desires May Contribute

Grammar, Perfectly Understood, Enables Us Not Only To Express Our Meaning Fully And Clearly, But So To Express It As To Enable Us To Defy The Ingenuity Of Man To Give To Our Words Any Other Meaning Than That Which We Ourselves Intend Them To Express.

The Christian Religion, Then, Is Not An Affair Of Preaching, Or Prating, Or Ranting, But Of Taking Care Of The Bodies As Well As The Souls Of People; Not An Affair Of Belief And Of Faith And Of Professions, But An Affair Of Doing Good, And Especially To Those Who Are In Want; Not An Affair Of Fire And Brimstone, But An Affair Of Bacon And Bread, Beer And A Bed.

Never Esteem Men On Account Of Their Riches Or Their Station. Respect Goodness, Find It Where You May.

It Is No Small Mischief To A Boy, That Many Of The Best Years Of His Life Should Be Devoted To The Learning Of What Can Never Be Of Any Real Use To Any Human Being. His Mind Is Necessarily Rendered Frivolous And Superficial By The Long Habit Of Attaching Importance To Words Instead Of Things; To Sound Instead Of Sense.

Nothing Is So Well Calculated To Produce A Death-like Torpor In The Country As An Extended System Of Taxation And A Great National Debt.