There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.