Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

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.