There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

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

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.