Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

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

In all the silent manliness of grief.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

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