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.

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

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.