Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.