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

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.