To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.