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

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

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.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.