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

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

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

Words are but the signs of ideas.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.