A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

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