A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Sydney Smith

But now persecution is good, because it exists; every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the passions from whence it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors: when such laws are repealed, they will be cruelty and madness; till they are repealed, they are policy and caution.

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained after his time, but mind — which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume, in 1737.