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

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

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