Health and happiness give rise to each other.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.