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

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

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

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Spare feast! a radish and an egg.