The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

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.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.