It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.