The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.