Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.