To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.