Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Silence is become his mother tongue.