The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.