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

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

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!

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.