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.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

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

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.