A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

The plainest case in many words entangling.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!