No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.