Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.