A Kind And Gentle Heart

There Are But Few Talents Requisite To Become A Popular Preacher; For The People Are Easily Pleased If They Perceive Any Endeavors In The Orator To Please Them. The Meanest Qualifications Will Work This Effect If The Preacher Sincerely Sets About It.

The Company Of Fools May First Make Us Smile, But In The End We Always Feel Melancholy.

Religion Does What Philosophy Could Never Do; It Shows The Equal Dealings Of Heaven To The Happy And The Unhappy, And Levels All Human Enjoyments To Nearly The Same Standard. It Gives To Both Rich And Poor The Same Happiness Hereafter, And Equal Hopes To Aspire After It.

Could A Man Live By It, It Were Not Unpleasant Employment To Be A Poet.

Honour Sinks Where Commerce Long Prevails.