Cotton Mather

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.