Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.