'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

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.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.