Trust Not To Friends And Kindred, Neither

I Have Often Heard, That It Is Safer To Hear And To Take Counsel, Than To Give It.

Our Dependence Upon God Ought To Be So Entire And Absolute That We Should Never Think It Necessary, In Any Kind Of Distress, To Have Recourse To Human Consolations.

No One Is Qualified To Converse In Public Except Those Contented To Do Without Such Conversation.

We Would Willingly Have Others Perfect, And Yet We Amend Not Our Own Faults. We Would Have Others Severely Corrected And Will Not Be Corrected Ourselves. The Large Liberty Of Others Displeases Us, And Yet We Will Not Have Our Own Desires Denied Us. We Will Have Others Kept Under By Strict Laws, But In No Sort Will Ourselves Be Restrained. And Thus It Appears How Seldom We Weigh Our Neighbor In The Same Balance With Ourselves.

A Humble Knowledge Of Ourselves Is A Surer Way To God Than Is The Search For Depth Of Learning.