The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.