In rising sighs and falling tears.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.