Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.