Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

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.