Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.