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

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

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

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Keep away from the fire!

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.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.