Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.