The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.