There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.