We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The city is recruited from the country.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.