The best hearts are ever the bravest.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

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.

The sad vicissitude of things.

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Endless is the search of truth.