Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
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.
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.