May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.