The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

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

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.