Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.