Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

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

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

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.