What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.