We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.