Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.