Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.