It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.