Content thyself to be obscurely good.

All of heaven we have below.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.