Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.