A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.