Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.