Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.