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

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

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.