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.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.