Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.