Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.