It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.