A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

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 wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

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.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.