The Soul Is Placed In The Body

These Reflections Made Me Very Sensible Of The Goodness Of Providence To Me, And Very Thankful For My Present Condition, With All Its Hardships And Misfortunes ; And This Part Also I Cannot But Recommend To The Reflection Of Those Who Are Apt, In Their Misery, To Say, Is Any Affliction Like Mine? Let Them Consider How Much Worse The Cases Of Some People Are, And Their Case Might Have Been, If Providence Had Thought Fit.

Thus Fear Of Danger Is Ten Thousand Times More Terrifying Than Danger Itself When Apparent To The Eyes ; And We Find The Burden Of Anxiety Greater, By Much, Than The Evil Which We Are Anxious About.

Friends Are Good,--good, If Well Chosen.

So Possible Is It For Us To Roll Ourselves Up In Wickedness, Till We Grow Invulnerable By Conscience; And That Sentinel, Once Dozed, Sleeps Fast, Not To Be Awakened While The Tide Of Pleasure Continues To Flow Or Till Something Dark And Dreadful Brings Us To Ourselves Again.

Great Families Of Yesterday We Show, And Lords, Whose Parents Were The Lord Knows Who.