Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

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

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

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