Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.