Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?