But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

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.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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