Our Merciful Father Has No Pleasure In

What Ascends Up In Prayer Descends To Us Again In Blessings. It Is Like The Rain Which Just Now Fell, And Which Had Been Drawn Up From The Ground In Vapors To The Clouds Before It Descended From Them To The Earth In That Refreshing Shower.

A Small Unkindness Is A Great Offence.

Strange! That What Is Enjoyed Without Pleasure Cannot Be Discontinued Without Pain!

Sound Economy Is A Sound Understanding Brought Into Action; It Is Calculation Realized; It Is The Doctrine Of Proportion Reduced To Practice; It Is Foreseeing Contingencies, And Providing Against Them.

I Used To Wonder Why People Should Be So Fond Of The Company Of Their Physician, Till I Recollected That He Is The Only Person With Whom One Dares To Talk Continually Of Oneself, Without Interruption, Contradiction Or Censure; I Suppose That Delightful Immunity Doubles Their Fees.