If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.