Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

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

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.