Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.