It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.