In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.