I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.