Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.