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.
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
Troops of heroes undistinguished die.
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.