Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.