Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.