There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.

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

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.