A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.