Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.