People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.