Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?