To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

See in what peace a Christian can die.