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

For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

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

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

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.