E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

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.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.