What Can You Conceive More Silly And

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly? ... Wearying Himself With Climbing Upon Every Ascent, ... Bruising Himself With Continual Falls, And At Last Breaking His Neck? And All This, From An Imagination That It Would Be Glorious To Have The Eyes Of People Looking Up At Him, And Mighty Happy To Eat, And Drink, And Sleep, At The Top Of The Highest Trees In The Kingdom.

Whatever Littleness And Vanity Is To Be Observed In The Minds Of Women, It Is, Like The Cruelty Of Butchers, A Temper That Is Wrought Into Them By That Life Which They Are Taught And Accustomed To Lead.

Faith Is Not A Notion, But A Real Strong Essential Hunger, An Attracting Or Magnetic Desire Of Christ, Which As It Proceeds From A Seed Of The Divine Nature In Us, So It Attracts And Unites With Its Like.

If Anyone Would Tell You The Shortest, Surest Way To All Happiness And All Perfection, He Must Tell You To Make A Rule To Yourself To Thank And Praise God For Everything That Happens To You.

God Seeth Different Abilities And Frailties Of Men, Which May Move His Goodness To Be Merciful To Their Different Improvements In Virtue.