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

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

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.