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

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.