True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.