Remorse begets reform.
God made the country and man made the town.
Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Such stuff the world is made of.
I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.
The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.