Almost all the moral good, which is left among us, is the apparent effect of physical evil.

This fatal question has disturbed the quiet of many other minds. He that inquires can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

Of what we know not, we can only judge by what we know.

I am a young lady newly married. Our fortune is large, our minds are vacant, our dispositions gay, our acquaintances numerous, and our relations splendid.

But however the writers of the day may despair of future fame, they ought at least to forbear any present mischief.

Biography is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.

I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end, and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration.

From what has been said, it may be inferred, that the works of nature, if we compare one species with another, are all equally beautiful.

Many years and ages are supposed to have been thus passed in plenty and security; when, at last, a new race of men entered our country from the great ocean.

That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed, but every day has likewise its pleasures.