Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.