If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.