What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.

I am in love with the green earth.

It is good to have friends at court.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

The world meets nobody half way.

Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.