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

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.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

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

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.