If We Expect To Inherit The Blessings

These Are Times In Which A Genius Would Wish To Live. It Is Not In The Still Calm Of Life, Or The Repose Of A Pacific Station, That Great Characters Are Formed.

I Hope Some Future Day Will Bring Me The Happiness Of Seeing My Family Again Collected Under Our Own Roof, Happy In Ourselves And Blessed In Each Other.

Every Object Is Beautiful In Motion; A Ship Under Sail, Trees Gently Agitated With The Wind, And A Fine Woman Dancing, Are Three Instances In Point

How Difficult The Task To Quench The Fire And The Pride Of Private Ambition, And To Sacrifice Ourselves And All Our Hopes And Expectations To The Public Weal! How Few Have Souls Capable Of So Noble An Undertaking!

It Is To Me A Most Affecting Thing To Hear Myself Prayed For, In Particular As I Do Every Day In The Week, And Disposes Me To Bear With More Composure, Some Disagreeable Circumstances That Attend My Situation.