I Have Already Enjoyed Too Much; Give

In Such A Government As Ours No Man Is Appointed To An Office Because He Is The Fittest For It--nor Hardly In Any Other Government--because There Are So Many Connections And Dependencies To Be Studied.

There Are People Whom One Should Like Very Well To Drop, But Would Not Wish To Be Dropped By.

There May Be Community Of Material Possessions, But There Can Never Be Community Of Love Or Esteem.

Poetry Is The Art Of Uniting Pleasure With Truth.

To Be Of No Church Is Dangerous. Religion, Of Which The Rewards Are Distant, And Which Is Animated Only By Faith And Hope, Will Glide By Degrees Out Of The Mind Unless It Be Invigorated And Reimpressed By External Ordinances, By Stated Calls To Worship, And The Salutary Influence Of Example.