The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The great source of pleasure is variety.