Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.