Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.