The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

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

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.