Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.