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

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

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.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.