True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.