When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

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.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

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