The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.