To Live Among Such Excellent

If Family Religion Were Duly Attended To And Properly Discharged, I Think The Preaching Of The Word Would Not Be The Common Instrument Of Conversion.

It Is Not The Reading Of Many Books Which Is Necessary To Make A Man Wise Or Good, But The Well-reading Of A Few, Could He Be Sure To Have The Best. And It Is Not Possible To Read Over Many On The Same Subject Without A Great Deal Of Loss Of Precious Time.

A Foolish Physician He Is, And A Most Unfaithful Friend, That Will Let A Sick Man Die For Fear Of Troubling Him; And Cruel Wretches Are We To Our Friends, That Will Rather Suffer Them To Go Quietly To Hell, Then We Will Anger Them, Or Hazard Our Reputation With Them.

Keep Your Children As Much As May Be From Ill Company, Especially Of Ungodly Playfellows. It Is One Of The Greatest Dangers For The Undoing Of Children In The World; Especially When They Are Sent To Common Schools: For There Is Scarce Any Of Those Schools So Good, But Hath Many Rude And Ungodly Ill-taught Children In It.

Doth Any Man Live More To Himself, Or Less To God, Than The Proud?