“Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.”

“If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.”

“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.”

“God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs”

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.”

“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”

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

“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”

“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”