My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.