We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.