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.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.