The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

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.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.