The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.