Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.