First be a good animal.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.