Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

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