I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Colors speak all languages.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

All of heaven we have below.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The post of honour is a private station.