Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.