Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

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

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!