Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.