It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.