Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.