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

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Jesters do often prove prophets.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.