A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

All of heaven we have below.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.