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

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

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

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

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.