A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.