Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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