We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

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

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.