Clergy are men as well as other folks.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.