There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

Injuries come only from the heart.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.