If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

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

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.