Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

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

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.