_Fancy._--"It is the most boundless and restless faculty of the soul; for while the Understanding and the Will are kept, as it were, _in libera custodia_ to their objects of _verum et bonum_, the Fancy is free from all engagements: it digs without spade, sails without ship, flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed; in a moment striding from the centre to the circumference of the world; by a kind of omnipotency creating and annihilating things in an instant; and things divorced in Nature are married in Fancy as in a lawless place." _Infants._--"Some, admiring what motives to mirth infants meet with in their silent and solitary smiles, have resolved, how truly I know not, that then they converse with angels; as indeed such cannot among mortals find any fitter companions." _Music._--"Such is the sociableness of music, it conforms itself to all companies both in mirth and mourning; complying to improve that passion with which it finds the auditors most affected. In a word, it is an invention which might have beseemed a son of Seth to have been the father thereof: though better it was that Cain's great grandchild should have the credit first to find it, than the world the unhappiness longer to have wanted it." _St. Monica._--"Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body."[18] [18] The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks which time has made.--WALLER. _Mortality._--"To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body, no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul." _Virgin._--"No lordling husband shall at the same time command her presence and distance; to be always near in constant attendance, and always to stand aloof in awful observance." _Elder Brother._--"Is one who made haste to come into the world to bring his parents the first news of male posterity, and is well rewarded for his tidings." _Bishop Fletcher._--"His pride was rather on him than in him, as only gait and gesture deep, not sinking to his heart, though causelessly condemned for a proud man, as who was a _good hypocrite_, and far more humble than he appeared." _Masters of Colleges._--"A little alloy of dulness in a Master of a College makes him fitter to manage secular affairs." _The Good Yeoman._--"Is a gentleman in ore, whom the next age may see refined." _Good Parent._--"For his love, therein, like a well drawn picture, he eyes all his children alike." _Deformity in Children._--"This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that are deformed; _enough to break those whom God had bowed before_."