The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.