What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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