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

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Look what a little vain dust we are!