Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time; andif he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.